Waking Sentence Examples

The crisp morning air wasn't necessary for the purpose of waking her up.

You ever find it odd you feel comfortable waking up to find me here?

Waking from her stupor, she blew him a kiss.

Things are coming to me like waking from a nightmare.

Sleep came slowly, but waking up was instant.

Now she was beginning to think about those things during waking hours.

What difference did it make whether she thought of him that way every waking minute, or only when her mind wasn't distracted by something else?

But hallucinatory figures, both in dreams and waking life, are not necessarily those of the living; from the reappearance of dead friends or enemies primitive man was inevitably led to the belief that there existed an incorporeal part of man which survived the dissolution of the body.

Certain it is that in the course of the waking day a great number of stimuli play on the sense organs, and through these produce disintegration of the living molecules of the central nervous system.

The long-continued incitement to catabolism of the waking day thus of itself predisposes the nerve cells towards rebound into the opposite phase; the increased catabolism due to the day's stimuli induces increase of anabolism, and though recuperation goes on to a large extent during the day itself, the recuperative process is slower than, and lags behind, the disintegrative.

This is akin to the "repetition" which, read by the schoolboy last thing overnight, is on waking "known by heart."

His reason for this strange assertion is that visions are superior to waking reality, as divine is superior to human (xvii.

Mr. Jefferson let me touch his face so that I could imagine how he looked on waking from that strange sleep of twenty years, and he showed me how poor old Rip staggered to his feet.

Her every waking moment is spent in the endeavour to satisfy her innate desire for knowledge, and her mind works so incessantly that we have feared for her health.

What if in my waking hours a sound should ring through the silent halls of hearing?

Prince Andrew shook himself as if waking up, and his face assumed the look it had had in Anna Pavlovna's drawing room.

On waking in the morning she told the Rostovs and all her acquaintances the details of Count Bezukhov's death.

What?... said Rostov, waking up.

On waking I lay long in bed yielding to sloth.

Several times, waking up, she heard his groans and muttering, the creak of his bed, and the steps of Tikhon and the doctor when they turned him over.

That sincerity which often comes with waking showed her clearly what chiefly concerned her about her father's illness.

On waking she listened to what was going on behind the door and, hearing him groan, said to herself with a sigh that things were still the same.

Pierre asked, waking up.

"Oh, what sleep-?" said the countess, waking up just as she was dropping into a doze.

When, waking in a cold perspiration, he moved on the divan, Natasha went up and asked him what was the matter.

He sat in the caleche, dozing and waking up by turns, and listening for any sound of firing on the right as an indication that the action had begun.

One desperate, frightened yell from the first French soldier who saw the Cossacks, and all who were in the camp, undressed and only just waking up, ran off in all directions, abandoning cannons, muskets, and horses.

The orderly had gone in before him and began waking somebody.

"I don't like waking him," he said, fumbling for something.

"Oh, I beg your pardon," she said as if waking up.

With her own bedroom came responsibilities – things like not waking up anyone else.

Was this what it would be like to be married to him - waking every morning to a feeling of security?

They moved off and their voices faded into the noise of the waking town.

Waking with a start, she glanced at her watch.

"We're the sorry ones," I answered, "for waking you up."

It was particularly difficult for Howie to remain in a silent darkened room without waking back to real time.

Howie stayed with him through most of an uneventful meal before waking back to the present.

"He's waking up," a voice from someone I couldn't see announced.

Every day he awoke wondering what happened to him, but he remembered nothing beyond waking up the day before.

His first memory was of waking up then of everything he'd done for the day.

He was a puzzle, a man with no memory beyond waking up in the morning.

"Damian," Two said, waking her.

There was a chill in the early day air as Dean drove the topless Jeep north through town as Ouray was waking up.

Their history made him want to touch her, to feel the softness of her skin before waking her to gaze into the huge blue-green eyes that were able to stop him in his tracks.

He definitely didn't look forward to waking up one day in Hell.

Then she called Katie to tell her about Alex waking up.

The idea of waking up to him each morning reminded her of how centered, energized and at peace she'd been after their first night together.

Her blood was humming from waking in his bed.

Troubled, she dozed, waking when she heard the knock at her door.

One placed a sleep patch on her ear to prevent her from waking and scooped her up while the other grabbed the last suitcase out of her bedroom.

He has spoken to me in whispers, in the dark of the night, how waves of guilt over our relationship are with him every waking moment, and yet he loves me so as to risk all for my embrace.

Mumbled a waking Connor.

She didn't want him waking and pressuring her to stay.

Why do I keep waking up alone in this bed?

I have nightmares of waking and finding you dead at my feet, and now you are trying to make them real.

Waking up to a cold house wouldn't be near as bad after a night sleeping next to his warm body.

She slept soundly, not waking until morning.

Growing old and waking up some day to realize you're alone because you were afraid to take a chance.

As if she had been in a dream and was now waking up to reality.

The sound of the trickling stream joined with the voices of birds waking to face the new day.

He couldn't imagine waking up to find an Other sitting in the corner.

Resolved, Darian Traveled to Texas, his presence in his sister-in-law's room waking her.

She recalled waking up and searching the house for Darian.

He'd blacked out then, waking in his room.

At first I thought Alfonso would have an opportunity to prepare for this – I mean, it wouldn't be like waking him up to tell him his parents had died in a plane crash.

No point in waking him now.

Jessi's breathing was deep; he'd worn her out and had no fear of her waking up with his quiet movements.

Pregnant hints are given respecting a natural development of language which has its germs in sounds of quadrupeds and birds, of religious ideas out of dreams and waking hallucinations, and of the art of music by help of the suggestion of natural sounds.

It was believed that information about other worlds and from higher intelligences could be obtained from persons in the sleep-waking state.

Is remarkable that in more than one passage of his poem Lucretius writes with extraordinary vividness of the impression produced both by dreams and by waking visions.

In the fourth book he discusses the Epicurean doctrine of the images, which are cast from all bodies, and which act either on the senses or immediately on the mind, in dreams or waking visions, as affording the explanation of the belief in the continued existence of the spirits of the departed.

With closed eyes, between sleeping and waking, many people see faces, landscapes and other things flash upon their view, pictures often brilliant, but of very brief duration and rapid mutation.

Brought up a Lutheran, and fond of pleasure, she had shown no liking for Scottish Calvinism, and soon incurred rebukes on account of her religion, "vanity," absence from church, "night waking and balling."

He was taught Latin orally by servants (a German tutor, Horstanus, is especially mentioned), who could speak no French, and many curious fancies were tried on him, as, for instance, that of waking him every morning by soft music. But he was by no means allowed to be idle.

The mere immobility of the body was sufficient to show that its state was not identical with that of waking; when, in addition, the sleeper awoke to give an account of visits to distant lands, from which, as modern psychical investigations suggest, he may even have brought back veridical details, the conclusion must have been irresistible that in sleep something journeyed forth, which was not the body.

Motor Automatism, on the other hand, is a non-reflex movement of a voluntary muscle, executed in the waking state but not controlled by the ordinary waking consciousness.

The muscles become less tense than in their waking state: their tonus is diminished, the upper eyelid falls, and the knee-jerk is in abeyance.

The respiratory rhythm is less frequent and the breathing less deep; the heart-beat is less frequent; the secretions are less copious; the pupil is narrow; in the brain there exists arterial anaemia with venous congestion, so that the blood-flow there is less than in the waking state.

It has been suggested that the gradual cumulative result of the activity of the nerve cells during the waking day is to load the brain tissue with "fatigue-substances" Theories of which clog the action of the cells, and thus periodi cally produce that loss of consciousness, &c., which is sleep. Such a drugging of tissue by its own excreta is known in muscular fatigue, but the fact that the depth of sleep progressively increases for an hour and more after its onset prevents complete explanation of sleep on similar lines.

We dared not to take a deep breath for fear of waking him.

On waking up that morning Count Ilya Rostov left his bedroom softly, so as not to wake the countess who had fallen asleep only toward morning, and came out to the porch in his lilac silk dressing gown.